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Quotes from The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace — John Conington

1825–1869 England

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Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

No, trust the Muse: she opes the good man's grave,
And lifts him to the gods.

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away.
Seize the present; trust to-morrow e'en as little as you may.

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

Ah! Postumus! Devotion fails
The lapse of gliding years to stay,
With wrinkled age it nought avails
Nor conjures conquering Death away.

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

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